He also added that the film will be more of a horror movie than a superhero one.

"The thing that keeps slowing it down is that the negotiation I've done is I write, produce, direct, but I've got to push a lot of my other endeavours off to the side so I can just get tunnel vision on it," he told The Gate.

"And so everybody at my company is now going, 'We've got to find Todd the time to finish all this'.

"It's not going to be a giant budget with a lot of special effects, it's going to be more of a horror movie and a thriller movie, not a superhero one."

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